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Crikey has asked spinners, pollies, journos and others about the shifting media landscape over the past 15 years. What’s good, what’s changed and what’s next? In this, the first in our ongoing Digital Disruptions series, we talk to veteran spinner Toby Ralph.

Anwar Ibrahim’s visit to Adelaide last weekend was an expert exercise in campaign politics, and showed that Malaysians in Australia want political debate as much as they want education. Academic Dr Amrita Malhi was there.

With a royal commission into child sex abuse starting work, the Catholic Church faces a tough task in PR and communications. Experts agree the Church has not handled the challenge well — but is a seachange taking place?

A publicist arguing restructures, and subsequent job cuts, by media empires Fairfax and News Limited was “great news” for spinners has opened up fresh wounds in the ongoing cold war between journalists and their public relations cousins.

We receive a lot of press releases. Most are useless, but one popped up overnight from Lauren Jones, an Aussie girl who works for gossip site Perez Hilton, which we thought deserved wider attention. But not exactly for the right reasons…